Lexmark X2300 Ink Cartridges Printer Review

Expert review of the Lexmark X2300 printer19 December 2012

Our Verdict:

Designed for home, individual, or student use, the Lexmark X2300 is a decent thermal inkjet printer. This multifunction unit offers great coloured output from prints to copies and scans. It has a maximum resolution of 4,800 x 1,200 dpi for coloured and 1,200 x 1,200 dpi for black and white. Scans can deliver a 19,200 x 19,200 dpi optical output. The monthly duty cycle is 1,000 pages. The Lexmark X2300 does not have an automatic document feeder and it could be better with the addition of memory card slots.

Design

The white and grey coloured Lexmark X2300 inkjet printer has a flatbed scanner with cover and a vertical input tray. The output tray serves as the base. The control panel to operate this all-in-one is located on the right-hand front cover for convenience. For connectivity, a USB port is provided. Print speed can go as fast as 15 ppm for both coloured and monochrome on draft mode. The X2300 colour multifunction printer uses the Lexmark No.1 inkjet printer cartridge.

Advantages

The reliable Lexmark X2300 all-in-one printer is easy to setup and takes up little space making it ideal for home use. This multifunction unit delivers crisp and professional output of solid texts and vibrant images, photos, and graphics. The Lexmark X-2300 colour inkjet printer can handle a wide range of media and offers borderless printing of photos. This model only requires one replacement Lexmark X2300 ink cartridge. The Lexmark 1 ink cartridge produces cyan, magenta and yellow colours as well as a process black.

Disadvantages

The Lexmark X2300 multifunction printer only offers USB connectivity and it is only compatible with Windows operating systems. Printing photos with the X-2300 printer could be made easier with the addition of a PictBridge port or memory card slots. Print speed is a bit slow, on normal mode it is only 5 ppm for black and white and coloured output.